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1 What is SWORD?
2 SWORD Protocol
- 2.1 Supported formats
3 SWORD Code
4 SWORD Demonstrators
5 Case studies
6 Contact
7 The Project
8 Other relevant work
- 8.1 Dissemination and praise

What is SWORD?

SWORD is a lightweight protocol for deposit. SWORD is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol. SWORD is a JISC-funded project 2007-2008. SWORD stands for Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit. The motivator for SWORD is 'lowering the barriers to deposit', principally deposit into repositories, but potentially deposit into any system which wants to receive content from remote sources.

For a handy introduction to the SWORD project, please see the following paper in Ariadne (as deposited in CADAIR).

SWORD Protocol

The SWORD protocol for deposit is a profile of the Atom Publishing Protocol. Current version:

SWORD APP Profile Version 1.2 - released 22nd January 2008 (announcement)

This document replaces:

SWORD APP Profile 1.1 - released 9th November 2007
SWORD APP Profile 1.0 - released 12th October 2007
previous working drafts: 0.7, 0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1

Supported formats

SWORD formats

SWORD Code

Code for implementing SWORD in DSpace, Fedora and EPrints is available from our Sourceforge project page, along with Java Libraries and the reference client code:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sword-app/ (from the downloads area)

EPrints code is also available from http://files.eprints.org/305/

SWORD Demonstrators

Within the SWORD project, the profile was implemented in test versions of DSpace, IntraLibrary, Fedora and EPrints. Instructions on how to access these can be found on the following page:

SWORD access

Intrallect have made available details about their implementation, including acceptance tests at the link below (please note their terms and conditions of use).

Intrallect development

There are two demonstration clients which can be used to test implementations within the SWORD project and are freely available for wider use.

Desktop client - available from sourceforge
Online client - available from http://sword.aber.ac.uk/sword/client

Other clients and implementations are happening outside of the project:

Feedforward project has produced a client which includes SWORD-compliance, among other features.
Foresite project is using SWORD to deposit ORE resource maps describing journals within JSTOR into a DSpace repository.
The Depot has implemented SWORD.
Biomedcentral's Open Repository are implementing a SWORD interface
Intrallect are implementing a desktop drag and drop tool which uses SWORD
Microsoft are implementing a 'save as' plugin based on SWORD
SOURCE project
SWORD Ruby Client: http://code.google.com/p/bibapp/
APSR OJS/OCS Repository Deposit Project

SWORD is bundled with the current release of DSpace, and will be part of forthcoming versions of EPrints, Fedora and IntraLibrary

Case studies

Four Case studies have been commissioned. The following are available now:

Contact

For queries relating to the project please contact Julie Allinson or Adrian Stevenson
For technical queries regarding implementation of SWORD, please join our sourceforget mailing list at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sword-app-tech

The Project

SWORD Project information

Other relevant work

OAI-ORE
HAL (http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/) - in French
Google Data APIs Protocol (http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/)
- YouTube video from Google Developers Day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4SWAfisH-8)
- Authentication extension (http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/reference.html#Authentication)
Apache Abdera project (http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/) - implementing ATOM and APP
Poster (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691) - a Firefox add-on that can be used to test *some* SWORD functionality, see blog post here
ICE Project

Dissemination and praise

SWORD. Presentation at Third International Conference on Open Repositories 2008, 1-4 April 2008, Southampton, United Kingdom. Paper and presenation.
SWORD - where we are now and how we got here. Presentation at the JISC CRIG Unconference, Birkbeck College, 6th December 2007.
Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD). Presentation at the JISC CETIS EC and MDR SIG meeting, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 29th June 2007. Also available on Slideshare
Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit (SWORD). Presentation at the Defining Image Access project meeting, Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, 22nd June 2007.
Rachel Heery, Julie Allinson, Jim Downing, Christopher Gutteridge and Martin Morrey, Repository Deposit Service Description. Presented by Julie Allinson at Open Repositories 2007, 23-26 January 2007, San Antonio, Texas.